Tag Archives: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Peeped Most Piteously for Pain of the Cold

With our first snowfall, birds are swarming our feeders, bringing to mind a passage from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and an Oliver Herford lyric.

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The Soul Longs to Return Whence It Came

Richard Eberhart’s “Soul Longs to Return Whence It Came” is a meditation up death and nature.

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Choose Life over Needless Sacrifice

Trump wants people to gamble with their lives to open up the economy. These works remind us that life is too precious to be sqandered this way.

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The Green Knight on Handling Death

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the most profound works I know for dealing with death.

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Morgan Le Faye through the Ages

Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]

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Green Knight & the Great Trump Hunt

Wednesday Donald Trump’s public relations lawyer Rudy Giuliani put on a performance for the ages this past Sunday, reminding me of no one so much as the fox in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Hold on while I explain. Trump often obfuscates to fend off charges leveled against him. If you can cloud the […]

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My Three Book Projects

In which I share my first three sabbatical–I mean retirement–book projects.

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Trump Drama as Sherlock Mystery

Trump and the Russian investigation resemble the Sherlock Holmes story “The Five Pips.” But is Trump the secret society doing the killing or the panicked uncle marked out for slaughter?

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Gawain, Trump and Shame

Trump and Sir Gawain respond in opposite ways to shame: Trump counterattacks by acting shamelessly while Gawain lets it tie him into knots.

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